[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5500 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5500

To amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt certain noncontiguous 
                     trade from the coastwise laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2019

   Mr. Case introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt certain noncontiguous 
                     trade from the coastwise laws.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Noncontiguous Shipping Competition 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SHIPPING: EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN NONCONTIGUOUS TRADE FROM THE 
              COASTWISE LAWS.

    Section 55101(b) of title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) carriage on a route in noncontiguous trade (as that 
        term is defined in section 53501), unless--
                    ``(A) at least three owners or operators of 
                coastwise qualified vessels (as that term is defined in 
                section 55108(a)) regularly operate such a vessel on 
                such route;
                    ``(B) each of such owners or operators transports 
                at least 20 percent of the volume of goods on that 
                route; and
                    ``(C) none of such owners or operators are under 
                common ownership.''.
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